The Best Open Source Business Software and Solutions for the Business Enterprise

The Pentaho Open BI Suite provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world’s most popular open source BI suite. Pentaho’s products are used by leading organizations including MySQL, Motorola, Terra Industries, DivX and more.

For an overview and description of features in the Pentaho Open BI Suite, please click here for the datasheet.

The Pentaho BI Project

Pentaho Corporation is the primary sponsor and leader of The Pentaho BI Project. The Pentaho BI Project is an ongoing initiative by the open source community that provides organizations with best-in-class solutions for their enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) needs. By leveraging the wealth of open source technologies and the contributions of the open source development community we are able to innovate much faster than commercial vendors. As a result, we provide an open source alternative that surpasses the leading proprietary BI suites in many areas of architecture, standards support, functionality, and ease of deployment. In other words, we don’t expect you to adopt it simply because it’s open, we expect that you will choose it because it’s better. This Technical Whitepaper describes Pentaho’s architecture and technical advantages.

The Pentaho BI Project encompasses the following major application areas

Pentaho Projects

• Mondrian - Open Source OLAP Server
• Pentaho Reporting Engine - Open Source Reporting
• Kettle - Open Source Data Integration (ETL)
• Pentaho - Comprehensive Open Source BI Suite
• Weka - Open Source Data Mining

The Pentaho BI Project exists to benefit and serve

• Java developers who can use project components to rapidly assemble custom BI solutions.
• ISVs who can enhance the value and capability of their solutions by embedding BI functionality.
• End-Users who can rapidly deploy packaged BI solutions which are either competitive or superior to traditional commercial offerings at a dramatically lower cost.
• The Pentaho BI Project team who are free to pursue their passion for BI while being a part of the Open Source movement which is revolutionizing the software industry to better serve users.